From Scott McConnell: A Dallas judge has meted out heavy sentences to five Arab American men, associated with the Holy Land Foundation, for funneling $12 million to Hamas, designated by the US government as a terror organization. The defendants maintained…
Part Two from Max Blumenthal focuses on the Israeli settlement enterprise in the West Bank (Part One is here). He visits the Balata refugee camp in Nablus and the Israeli settlement Ariel – the juxtaposition speaks for itself – and…
The arrests in the synagogue/jihad case in New York are terrifying, of course; and a reminder that anti-Semitism is a live force even in the U.S. Also a reminder that the Palestinian issue is likely to be deeply disruptive in…
I worked outside today and had the computer off for six hours, and the whole time I worried that people were going to say I was anti-Semitic for this post on Jews and money. I’d talked about the issue on…
Speaking of Jewish wealth/success, USA Today reports on the massive speaking fees earned last year by State Department envoys Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross, $1.7 million and $420,000 respectively–half of Ross’s speaking income from Jewish groups. Per his disclosure statement,…
Bernard Avishai on TPM: OBAMA, PRESUMABLY, WILL be too polite to ask Netanyahu: “What kind of Jewish state?” But perhaps his people could later put the question to Uzi Arad, the other Israeli official in the room, [who has an…
Michael Wolff tells a weird story about American Apparel boss, Dov Charney: Dov Charney has used a photographic approach that might be characterized as underage retro porn as American Apparel’s branding theme. Charney, who often takes the pictures himself, recently…
Missed this one. A month ago, Mother Jones reported something I’ve always heard talk about, that Tom Friedman is married into one of the richest families in America, the shopping-mall Bucksbaums, whose company has taken a huge hit in the…
Missed this one. A month ago, Mother Jones reported something I’ve always heard talk about, that Tom Friedman is married into one of the richest families in America, the shopping-mall Bucksbaums, whose company has taken a huge hit in the…